Binder Setup Template (with Instructions)

To make your Binder look and function the way you want, you'll need to provide some information. Save a copy of this file with a new name in your Binder folder. Make sure you're using the copy and not the original template, then open it an HTML editor (not in your browser) and change the title and the heading above to something relevant, so you don't get confused about which Binder you're setting up. Fill in the information requested below, then save the page.

Note: This setup page is most easily edited with a wysiwyg HTML editor, however, if you don't have a wysiwyg editor, you can edit it however you normally edit HTML files. Whichever way you edit, you can always check that this page is correctly set up by looking at it in a browser. In general, your Binder should work correctly if this page works: if the links all work and the text fields have the correct values.



Make a link to your Binder's index page: INDEX PAGE.


For each object in your Binder, provide its title, its type, and the link to be used by the BinderMinder to load it.. (For Notebooks, the type is BOOK and the link is a link to the Notebook's setup page.). You may delete any tables you don't need, or copy more if necessary. The order of the tables is not important, and you need not list all the objects below in your index.

Title:
Type: LINK

Title:
Type: LINK

Title:
Type: LINK



Making Index Page Links

The information above will be used by the index page of your Binder. An index page link to the object with the title "The Title" has the form

<A HREF="&{opener.parent.LOAD('The Title')};">Link Text or Link Image</A>

or (inside form tags <FORM> . . . </FORM>)

<INPUT TYPE="BUTTON" VALUE="Button Text" ONCLICK="&{opener.parent.LOAD('The Title')};">


Shortcut

If your index page contains many links, you can save typing the "opener.parent." part each time by including the following fragment inside the index page <HEAD> . . </HEAD> tags:

<SCRIPT="JavaScript1.2"><!--
LOAD=parent.opener.LOAD
// -->
</SCRIPT>

The links in the body of the index page can then be shortened to

<A HREF="&{LOAD('The Title')};">Link Text or Link Image</A>

or

<INPUT TYPE="BUTTON" VALUE="Button Text" ONCLICK="&{LOAD('The Title')};">